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Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Fightful, Inc.

Wrestling, Sports

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sean Ross Sapp speaks with GCW Owner Brett Lauderdale ahead of The People vs. GCW on January 19 at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Note: this was recorded before the WWE ID announcement.0:00 Intro1:00 Hammerstein Ballroom2:00 New York commission4:00 Regulating wrestling7:45 Filming the vignette and commercial10:00 Expanding the schedule12:20 Deciding on venues14:20 Naming an event15:00 GCW Hawaii17:00 Triller relationship20:00 WWE process22:30 Nick Gage24:40 Specialized shows26:20 Combined shows29:00 Additional notesTo directly support us and our continuing breaking news, interviews, and the like, subscribe to FightfulSelect.com. You'll get exclusive news sent to you directly before anyone else, and dozens of podcasts monthly including Alex Pawlowski's Sour Graps, Sean Ross Sapp's Q&A, Retro Reviews and more for only $5 a month or $54 a yearSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/fightful-pro-wrestling-and-mma-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	What's up you guys?
0:02.7	Sean Ross Sapp, welcome to Fightful here with the name, you know, the owner of GCW.
0:09.1	They have events all the time, but a big one coming up, January 19th, Hammerstein Ballroom,
0:14.4	The People versus GCW tickets on sale now.
0:17.0	We've got Brett Lauderdale.
0:18.3	How are you doing, man?
0:19.5	I'm doing well, Sean sean thank you for having me and
0:22.5	thank you um yeah thank you as always for uh for all these support yeah and fill in your houses
0:31.4	you know what i mean just just the usual it was a sellout so it was it was it a sellout, and a lot of people called me a sellout.
0:39.6	So, man, no, don't worry.
0:42.2	You're in good company.
0:43.3	I've also been called a sellout.
0:46.2	So, man, you're running Hammerstein Ballroom again.
0:50.9	What did you learn from the first go around running that show?
0:56.8	Well, I learned that the bigger the show, the more people that are in attendance and the more
1:03.8	people that are watching equals more opinions. And everybody has an opinion on how it should be
1:09.3	done and how it should have been done.
1:14.6	And that's all cool.
1:18.9	That was obviously a bigger scope than anything we'd ever done before.
1:21.7	So, you know, in some ways it was overwhelming.
1:23.5	You know, you have so many people saying,
1:25.3	wow, that was the greatest show I'd ever seen.
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